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PORT TOWNSEND

ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

1020 Jefferson Street
  Port Townsend  · (360) 385-0770



St. Paul's Port Townsend
Suggested Donation:
$20 to $30
(a free will offering - everyone welcome)
•  18 and under FREE  •
SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music in Port Townsend
thanks to your support.

Early Music Ammerica

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be an affiliate organization of Early Music America, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America.

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✣ With special thanks
to St. Paul's Episcopal Church


2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Port Townsend
~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries in Port Townsend and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in collaboration with St. Paul's Episcopal Church ~


  Friday noon, March 22, 2024 at 12:00 NOON in Port Townsend  Haydn

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS 

Jeffrey Cohan
~ 8-keyed flute ~
Lindsey Strand-Polyak
~  baroque violin ~
Martin Bonham
~ baroque cello ~


Franz Joseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Franz Anton Hoffmeister

François Devienne


As the most celebrated composer in all of Europe for much of his career, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was Mozart’s mentor and friend as well as Beethoven’s tutor. The program will include three trios for flute, violin and cello by Haydn, selections from a 1795 arrangement for these instruments of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, and a trio by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a friend of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven who published music by all three.

~ Earlier concerts this season ~


  Sunday, JANUARY 21 at 2 PM at St. Paul's Episcopal Church 
Renaissance flute and lute

THREE CENTURIES:
GUITAR, THEORBO & FLUTE  

Michael Freimuth
 ~ renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~ renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th Century
Diego Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni Bassano
Girolamo Dalla Casa
17th Century
Giovanni Paulo Cima
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Giovanni Battista Fontana
Giovanni Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde
18th Century
Arcangelo CorelliAndré Chéron
Robert de Visée


Join us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival and an unusual and expansive journey through the music for guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, including elaborate jazzed-up versions of well known songs of the time, published by the incredible wind instrument virtuosi of the late 16th century, along with canzonas, sonatas and suites from Spain, Italy, England and France. The instruments include the renaissance guitar, which is considerably smaller and more mellow-toned than its modern descendant, theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute), the one-piece cylindrical renaissance flute along with the bass renaissance flute, and the one-keyed baroque flute.

 Michael FreimuthJeffrey Cohan


  Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 2:00 pm in Pt. Townsend 
Stubbs Napper Cohan
SIMPHONIE NOUVELLE:
LOUIS XIV & J.S. BACH

Stephen Stubbs
baroque guitar ~
Susie Napper
~ viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~ baroque flute ~

guitarists
Diego Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
Robert De Visée (c.1655-1733)
viola da gambists
Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (c.1640-c.1700)
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Jacques Morel (c.1680-c.1740)
flutist
Michel de la Barre (c.1675-1745)
composers
Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Louis XIV


Louis XIV gathered the finest musicians of France at his court in Versailles and this program features many of the late 17th and early 18th-century guitarists, viola da gambists, flutists and other composers associated with his illustrious musical establishment, alongside the Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 of Johann Sebastian Bach.





  Saturday, March 2 at 2:00 pm in Pt. Townsend  Renaissance flute and lute

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS 

David Greenberg
~  baroque violin ~
Elisabeth Wright
~ harpsichord ~
Susie Napper
~ viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~ baroque flute ~

Quadri a violino, flauto traversiere, viola da gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento (1730):
Concerto II in D Major
Sonata II in G Minor
Nouveaux quatuors en six suites (1738):
Premier Quatuor in D Major
4e. Quatuor in B Minor


Having been invited by several of the most prominent French musicians to visit Paris, Telemann composed and published the first set of his remarkable "Paris Quartets" in 1730, and left Hamburg for Paris seven years later, where all 12 of the quartets were performed, almost surely with Teleman himself on the harpsichord. The second set of quartets was published in Paris during this visit in 1738. Two years later Telemann related the following:

       "The admirable performances of these quartets by Messrs Blavet (transverse flute), Guignon (violin), the younger Forcroy [i.e. Forqueray] (viola da gamba) and Edouard (cello) would be worth describing were it possible for words to be found to do them justice. In short, they won the attention of the ears of the court and the town, and procured for me in a very little time an almost universal renown and increased esteem."
Napper Wright Greenberg Cohan



Fantasia 11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021

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SSEMF presents outstanding early chamber music
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thanks to your support.